TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vidu,Adonis
TI  - Postliberal theological method: a critical study 
SN  - 1842273957
AV  - BT83.595 .V53 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Milton Keynes, U.K., Waynesboro, GA
PB  - Paternoster
KW  - Postliberal theology
KW  - Philosophical theology
KW  - Narrative theology
N1  - Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Nottingham, England; Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index; Textual habits. Modernity's prejudice against tradition ; Two ways of recovering Vico ; Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Fish on tradition ; Postliberal notions of setting ; Initial critique -- Hermeneutics. Realistic narratives : Frei's early hermeneutics ; The gospels as history ; Interpretation and law ; The later Frei ; Concluding reflections -- Ontology. Cultural linguisticism : formal considerations ; World absorption and God's prevenience : material considerations ; Lindbeck, schemes, and content -- Justification. Problems with justification ; Justification in narrative theology -- Doctrine. The regulative view of doctrine ; Against the reification of practice ; Doctrine and ontology ; Conclusions -- Christology. Christology in conflict : rival Christological methods ; Hans Frei's narrative rendering of identity ; Lindbeck and grammatical Christology ; Christological reference and tradition as habitus
ER  -